Further information

Aim Rule 26 disclosure

Gama Aviation Plc is incorporated in the UK and is subject to the UK City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. There are no restrictions on the transfer of its AIM securities. Shares in Gama Aviation Plc are not traded on any exchanges or trading platforms other than the AIM market.

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Full year trading update

Gama Aviation reports continued progress in line with expectations

“We are pleased to affirm that our underlying earnings for the year ended 31 December 2017 have been delivered in line with our expectations whilst continuing to improve cash conversion. Both our Air and Ground divisions are performing well and we continue to invest across both divisions and all of our geographies in line with our strategy of becoming the market leader in business aviation services. We enter 2018 confident in the strength of the Company’s operations and its growth potential.”

Marwan Khalek, Group Chief Executive Officer.

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Trading update in brief

Trading for year ended 31 December 2017 (1)

Underlying earnings for the full year are in line with the Company’s expectations and consistent with the trading outlook provided at the time of the interim results published in September 2017.

The Company has continued the solid progress it made during the first half of the year in improving its cash conversion, resulting in cash and cash equivalents as at 31 December 2017 of US$22m (2016: US$11m). After funding the acquisition of 51% of Gama Group Mena FZC, which closed in October 2017, and securing a further US$2m of finance leases in July 2017 for the purchase of a support aircraft under the Scottish Air Ambulance contract, net debt was US$13m as at 31 December 2017 (2016: US$19m).

(1) This section of the announcement contains inside information for the purposes of article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014